Edward
L. Ayers, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History, and Anne S.
Rubin, project manager of the Valley project and associate at
the Institute for Advanced Technologies. The Valley of the Shadow:
Two Communities in the American Civil War (book and CD-ROM). W.W.
Norton and Company.

A
collection of essays reflecting the evolution of Beowulf scholarship
over the past 25 years.

Richard
Drayton, associate professor of history. Nature's Government:
Science, British Imperialism, and the îImprovement' of the World.
Yale University Press.

Nature's
government shows how colonial expansion, from the Age of Alexander
to the 20th century, led to more complex kinds of science, particularly
botany, and how science was used to justify imperialism.

Glen
Beamer, assistant professor of government and assistant professor
of health evaluation sciences. Creative Politics: Taxes and Public
Goods in a Federal System. University of Michigan Press.